A Streetcar Named Desire

• Scene 1: Blanche and Stella on Stanley

  "Stanley is Polish, you know."

  • Hedging creates a defensive tone, almost as if she knows B will not approve if this
• Scene 1: Blanche and Stella on Stanley

  "Polacks?"

  • Colloquial / Derogatory language - allows the audience to see her sense if superiority. Hypocritical when we learn of her own French ancestory